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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.


Job overview


This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Psychologist to lead a co-produced, innovative mental health and well-being service that is both Psychologically-led and Occupational Therapy (OT)-led called, Step and Thrive. Step and Thrive is for working age adults (18 to 65 years old) who are impacted by severe and enduring mental health issues and is a new pathway being developed as part of the community transformation of adult mental health services. This service will provide accessible, community-based support in the form of psychologically-informed and OT-informed activities, groups and social spaces that address the holistic well-being needs (e.g. emotional, social, occupational, practical, etc) that contribute to poor mental health. This is a co-produced service that blends psychological and OT expertise alongside lived experience to ensure that support is accessible, relevant and effective. The service draws largely on community psychology, narrative, trauma informed and attachment-based principles. The service seeks to create community integration by working alongside community organisations and support people to access relevant and sustainable support outside of the NHS.


Main duties of the job


The post-holder will:

• Provide trauma-informed adapted evidence-based psychological interventions in community-based settings.
• Provide psychological formulation and consultation to contribute to the care plans.
• Work collaboratively with our Employment Specialists and Voluntary Sector colleagues.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers
• Supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by attached doctoral trainees and supervise psychologically driven treatment interventions by other members of the MDT.
• Provide training, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team, who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within the service/team.
• Utilize skills for research and audit and contribute to policy and service development
• Support Enfield Adult Psychology Lead and Community Engagement Team Manager in implementing post-incident support and reflective practice.

Working for our organisation



Working for North London Mental Health Partnership


The partnership between
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)
and
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)
is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the
North London Mental Health Partnership.



Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities


For a detailed job description, person specification and main responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description and Person Spec attached to this advert.


Person specification



Qualifications/Registrations



Essential criteria

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• Eligibility for Chartered Status with BPS
• Registered with HCPC as a psychologist

Desirable criteria

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or equivalent

Skills/Abilities



Essential criteria

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• An ability to use and demonstrate psychological model-based formulations as part of clinical and care management planning

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. PTSD, psychosis, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Direct experience of working in a co-produced way
• Experience of working in or alongside the voluntary sector

Experience/ Knowledge



Essential criteria

• Experience, including in the NHS, of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community/teams, primary care and in patient and day settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of running a range of groups/workshops /courses for service users and their carers.
• Multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing Risk management plans and supporting care of service users.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of Community Psychology, Narrative Therapy or Attachment/Mentalisation based approaches
• Experience of working in the community psychology-based projects/services
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience and knowledge of the Trauma Informed Care framework in clinical settings
• Experience of supporting reflective practice
• Experience of participating in or supporting post-incident support
• Experience of service innovation and development

Personal Qualities



Essential criteria

• An enthusiasm and commitment to the psychological treatment of those who don't meet the criteria for secondary services
• Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others
• Ability to demonstrate Trust Values
• Ability to work creatively to engage difficult to reach service users

Desirable criteria

• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit

Other Requirements



Essential criteria

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• IT skills including e-mail, word processing and basic data base.
• Ability and willingness to travel around the designated area of work and to work flexibly and sometimes antisocial hours

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Ability to support MDT members in the provision of psychologically driven interventions

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first
50
applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.


By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.



Employer certification / accreditation badges



Applicant requirements


You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.


Documents to download

• JD and PS (PDF, 286.9KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 258.2KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)